TrianGo (Game)

TrianGo

GAME » on 1989

Amiga (Platform)Apple II (Platform)Commodore 64 (Platform)PC (Platform)

A virtual abstract board game where you place stones, form territories, and reclaim your stones back.

Overview

TrianGo, often stylized as TrianGO, is a virtual board game developed by P.Z.Karen Co. Development Group (under the parent company Logical Design Works) and published by California Dreams (Company) for the Amiga (Platform), Apple II (Platform), Commodore 64 (Platform), and DOS PCs in 1989. Named after the traditional Japanese board game of go, TrianGO has players taking turns placing colored stones on a unique board of triangular tiles, with the goal being to form "territories" and use them to "capture" their stones back so that they are the last player with stones to play. The manual includes instructions for Atari ST (Platform) and Macintosh versions of the game, but it is unknown if they were ever released.

Gameplay

The game is plated on a unique board made up of 84 triangular tiles, resembling two hexagons stacked on top of each-other. Similar to the game of go, each player takes turns placing one of their 14 colored stones anywhere on the board at each of its 55 points formed by the tiles, following a specific criteria:

Players can't place stones on an occupied point.
Players can't place stones adjacent to another one of theirs on the three-point parameter lines (marked with double lines).
Players can only place up to six stones total on all three-point parameter lines.

The object of the game is to be the last player with stones left to play, which is done by forming triangles (as "territory") with their stones and using them to perform "captures" (which returns them all of their stones inside the territory while removing all other stones in the territory from play). On each turn, players have an option to forego placing their stone to perform a capture on one of their territories if there are opposing stones inside it. They can only capture one territory at a time, and tiles can belong to more than one territory (regardless of player). It can be played with up to four players, although playing against the computer is only possible in the two-player variant (with five difficulty levels: Novice, Intermediate, Expert, Master, and Grand Master). The game also has a board editor, allowing players to switch

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